Google Chrome Browser developed by Google Inc. is a freeware web browser licensed under Google Chrome Terms of Service.

As per Wikipedia (as of October 2016) statistics and trends Google Chrome Browser has a 63% usages of globally and we can say it’s not ideal alternative browser but it’s the best and widely used internet browser, which uses the WebKit layout engine.

Install Google Chrome 51 in Debian and Ubuntu

The Google chrome is a popular browser because of it’s simplicity, load quickly i.e. speed, customizable, stable and security. The Google Chrome stable build 55.0.2883.75 was released on December 02, 2016 for Windows, Mac and Linux with number of fixes and improvements which contains:

Added HTML5 supprot

Added number of new apps/extension APIs

Plenty of under the hood modifications for stability and performance

In this post we’ll show you some easy steps to install Google Chrome Browser 55 (i.e 55.0.2883.75) in Debian 9/8/7/6, Ubuntu 16.10-14.04 and Linux Mint 18/17/16. However, the same installation instructions also works on older versions of Debian, Ubuntu and Mint distributions.

There are two official ways to install Chrome browser, the one is using Google Chrome PPA and other method is, directly downloading and installing ‘.deb‘ packages. We will show you both ways, so that you can select whatever method you feel easy..

Installing Google Chrome Browser Using PPA

1. We use Google’s official Linux software repository (PPA) that will automatically install and configure settings needed to keep your chrome browser up-to-date.

Before installing repository, we need to download and install Google’s Linux package signing Key that will automatically configure your package manager to verify the integrity of packages before downloading and installing on the system.

On an Debian based systems (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.), use the following command to download the key and then use ‘apt-key‘ to add it to the system.

Removing Google Chrome Browser

To completely uninstall, use the following command.

$ sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-stable

For newbies who are just starting out with Google Chrome, I suggest you to read following free ebooks that describes tons of helpful tips and keyboard shortcuts that will help you on how to use Google Chrome efficiently.

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